Disagreeing with Canceling Holy Week

[Emeraldlady]

“A Call to Deeper Spirituality”

 

[mythbuster1]

All parishes should do the extended form Pentecost Vigil this year.

 

[JulianN]

I believe many will be, since most dioceses are moving the RCIA sacraments to that Mass.

 

[mythbuster1]

It’s necessary for security. Witches and Satanists are liable to steal the Tabernacle if the church isn’t locked when it’s not occupied. There have also been cases of robbers lying in wait to ambush adorers.

 

[mythbuster1]

Indeed, under the Old Law, laymen didn’t go to the Temple very often unless they lived near Jerusalem. Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot (maybe arriving in time for Yom Kippur) and for certain rituals like the Presentation of an infant.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

It’s necessary for security. Witches and Satanists are liable to steal the Tabernacle if the church isn’t locked when it’s not occupied. There have also been cases of robbers lying in wait to ambush adorers.

I understand, that just isn’t typical in my diocese, except for a few rare parishes in certain parts of the city. Otherwise parishes are locked at night but I almost always know I can walk into a Catholic church around me and pray outside of Mass times, light candles, etc during the day.

the Mass had no value if there is no congregation. Like certain other heretics

We also have been taught “active participation” over the last few decades, which is good but it has, yes, perhaps given a misunderstanding of the Mass.

 

[PennyinCanada]

This is strange to me, that on one hand we have the health care front lines saying we don’t have enough masks and gloves and ventilators to handle all these people, and on the other hand we have people who say I should be able to go about my business and not have these restrictions forced on me.

Jesus spent 40 days in the desert and he took on all of our humanity, he knew what it was to be hot, to be thirsty, to be hungry. Now it’s our turn. Use this time to be a force for good in the world. Unite all your struggles with Christ for the salvation of the world and for your own failings. This can be a time of gold and silver when we come before the Lord and he tests our works. This is a small test to see what we’re made of. All those communions we had before? Let’s see the fruit now.

 

[ThomasMT]

Catholics are supposed to models and being imprudent is not part of that.

Then let’s be models of faith. There is a difference between being prudent and unnecessarily wavering in fear. I’ll let our Church leaders decide where that difference lies. As for you and I, we will agree to disagree.

 

[ThomasMT]

Indeed, Prudence is one of the Four Cardinal Virtues for Catholics.

So is fortitude.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Let’s put it this way: do you want to be the cause of your pastor’s death?

Brooklyn Catholic priest first in US to die of coronavirus

Many of the priests around here are even older than age 49 and some of them already have significant health problems.

 

[ThomasMT]

There are many priests who are aware of the risks and would continue to serve if they were permitted to, with the option to sit this out if they wished. This is their vocation! I wouldn’t want to see a cop die on the job either, but one obviously takes the job, aware of the risks, because the cause justifies the risks. In the case of a priest… one that dies while faithfully serving Christ’s flock is in a much better position than those of us left behind.

It is written that a good Shepard is prepared to lay his life down for the sheep. I didnt read the article but its obvious that this Priest died as the warrior of Christ that we all are at times called to be.

I guess that it all comes back to faith, over and over again. It is a sign of lack thereof, when we are so fixated on elevating the temporal above the eternal.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

The priests are obedient to their bishop, who has made the decision for them so that they do not needlessly get placed in danger. They will already be in enough danger ministering to the very sick and doing the other things they’re still allowed to do.

It’s disturbing that you think it’s so great for priests to die when we already have a shortage.

I am going to mute this thread now because it’s clear to me that some people are just going to insist on having their own way, and yes, it seems very entitled and very tone deaf to what is actually going on with this epidemic. Someone who would suggest that it’s super-heroic for a priest to die when, if we take some precautions, he might not have to die…well, that’s just left the bounds of reason for me.

 

[davetv]

“do not be afraid of those who kill the body , but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” – oh and viruses fear viruses.

 

[Emeraldlady]

There are many priests who are aware of the risks and would continue to serve if they were permitted to, with the option to sit this out if they wished. This is their vocation! I wouldn’t want to see a cop die on the job either, but one obviously takes the job, aware of the risks, because the cause justifies the risks. In the case of a priest… one that dies while faithfully serving Christ’s flock is in a much better position than those of us left behind.

It is written that a good Shepard is prepared to lay his life down for the sheep. I didnt read the article but its obvious that this Priest died as the warrior of Christ that we all are at times called to be.

I guess that it all comes back to faith, over and over again. It is a sign of lack thereof, when we are so fixated on elevating the temporal above the eternal.

Pope Francis encouraged Priests to visit the sick. It’s just public Masses that have been suspended because of the medically proven danger of spread through a large crowd.

 

[JulianN]

There are many priests who are aware of the risks and would continue to serve if they were permitted to, with the option to sit this out if they wished. This is their vocation! I wouldn’t want to see a cop die on the job either, but one obviously takes the job, aware of the risks, because the cause justifies the risks

But in this case, he wouldn’t just be taking the risk of getting the virus, he’d be risking the lives of everyone else with whom he came in contact. That wouldn’t exactly make him a hero.

 

[MagdalenaRita]

Podcast: What Should A Priest Do in a Pandemic? – Padre Peregrino

 

[ThomasMT]

I get that, Emerald… kinda got sidetracked off point, with tis_Bear. My own frustration lies with canceled confessions, but that’s another matter.
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[davetv]

I find the whole thing frustrating. The USA government managed to do in a week the communists couldn’t do in 40 years. Stop people from going to Mass

 

[JulianN]

I find the whole thing frustrating. The USA government managed to do in a week the communists couldn’t do in 40 years. Stop people from going to Mass

Thank God in heaven for bishops with compassion and common sense.

 

[ThomasMT]

I understand that argument. My response would drag us into a back n forth that that I already exhausted either earlier in this thread, or on another one… it’s getting late. Peace )